The Munich Office built an overtime calculator

“It's only for one department.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the fax machine is still somehow involved. Started as Stock_list_final_FINAL.xlsm with a script attached.

Built by:

Kevin, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Redis, permanently

Database:

an audit table that nobody has ever queried

Authentication:

the demo account has production access

Deployment:

SSL certificate expires in 7 days

Responsible:

Tobias, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Lukas"

Security situation:

TLS is disabled because it is "inside the network"

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 39 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €3k per year, 1 users, 1% chance of becoming business critical.